Asian necessity will be the mother of global inventionDuring my last trip to China, my hosts treated me with an elaborate dinner. Following the umpteenth course, one Beijing policymaker proposed, "Chinese society is based on food, but American society is based on sex." My rather tart reply: "Oh yeah? Then how come Americans are so overweight and there's a billion Chinese?"
After convulsing with laughter, my host declared that a strategist like myself would be better off working for the Chinese: "Compared to America, we face many more strategic puzzles." He was right, and lying therein was an inescapable challenge for American businesses: Access Asia's emerging markets or risk missing out on their coming wave of innovation.
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Quite right. And an excellent article, too.
PS: Did you hear that the largest Bible publisher in the world is in China .... and most of its run is for the Chinese market?
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December 9, 2007 6:40 AM
Ditto's, on this being another excellent column.
Steve DeAngelis recent post on not giving up on Globalization, dovetails with this piece.
"My partner, Tom Barnett, and I appreciate the greatness of America's past but don't believe that the U.S. should steer a course to the future by watching its wake. We believe the best is yet to come."
http://enterpriseresilienceblog.typepad.com/enterprise_resilience_man/2007/12/dont-give-up-on.html
Out of the recent surge in new legal immigrants will come the day that Tom writes about in BFA, when a female asian face, representing the United States sits down to negociate, across from someone from her ancestor's homeland.
You can multliply this scenario thousands of times, as this new generation of Americans move into the government and private sector.
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December 9, 2007 1:41 PM
I appreciate both the column and the comments today.
Posted by Nan | December 9, 2007 1:52 PM